GRE Word List

PHOENIX

a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period

The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.

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trancestupor
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
resoundto become filled with sound : reverberate
ruthlesshaving no pity : merciless
bedraggleto wet thoroughly
pejorativea word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation
limpidmarked by transparency (see transparent
sleightdeceitful craftiness
dirgea song or hymn of grief or lamentation
careento put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull